Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories

Leonard Cassuto

Paper, 344 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12691-5
$27.50 / £19.00

October, 2008
Cloth, 344 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12690-8
$79.50 / £55.00

Web features:

• Visit Leonard Cassuto’s Web Site.
• Read a review from the Los Angeles Times
• Read Leonard Cassuto’s blog posting “Rooting for Serial Killers: The Strange Case of Dexter”
• Read Leonard Cassuto’s essay in the Wall Street Journal, “Bound for Perdition: “Highsmith’s ‘Strangers on a Train’ is fueled by anxiety”
• 2008 Crime Fiction Favorite at the Los Angeles Times

Related Subjects

• American Literature
• Literary Criticism and Theory

About the Author

Leonard Cassuto is professor of English at Fordham University and an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in academic journals and popular periodicals ranging from The Wall Street Journal to Salon.com. He is the author of The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture and the general editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the American Novel.

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